WASHINGTON: Some senior Taliban leaders appear to be open to reconciliation with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government, but contacts are in the embryonic stage and not likely to bear fruit soon, NATO’s top civilian in …

WASHINGTON: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that an appropriate number of army has been deployed at the western borders of the country. At a meeting with the members of Editorial Board of Washington Post, …

WASHINGTON: Underscoring that the United States recognizes Pakistan’s sovereignty, President Barack Obama Sunday ruled out the possibility of US troops crossing into Pakistani territory from Afghanistan in pursuit of al?Qaeda militants. Instead, the US president …

KABUL: The top US diplomat in Kabul warned ­ that Pakistan posed a bigger security challenge to America and the world than Afghanistan, as Islamabad grappled with the latest terrorist attack on its soil and …

MOSCOW: Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Russia was considering to offer military aircraft to help supply NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, in an overture to a new US administration. The Kremlin has said …

In a sad incident assailants have destroyed ten containers in Tehsil Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency on Wednesday. The containers were full of supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan. No causality was reported in …

WASHINGTON: Even as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to deploy more military forces to Afghanistan – what he has called “the central front” in former President George W. Bush’s “global war on terror” – a …

BAGHDAD: Iraqi parliament has voted to accept a deal on the future presence of US troops in the country. The decision means that US troops will leave Iraqi streets by mid-2009 and will quit Iraq …

PESHAWAR: At least 50 militants were killed and one security personnel embraced Shahadat in two days clashes between miscreants and security forces in restive Darra Adamkhel area, some 45 kilometer south of provincial capital, a …

PRAGUE: A Czech military Special Forces unit from Prostejov, south Moravia, has been operating in Afghanistan again since September, chief of staff Vlastimil Picek has said. The deployment of 100 soldiers from the elite unit …